If this was 1987 I would have seriously squealed in delight at interviewing Bros legend Matt Goss.
And in 2010 the experience was still just as good. I met Matt this week at London’s Savoy Hotel as he flew into London to do a one-off performance of his critically acclaimed Las Vegas Caesar’s Palace revue show.
And Bros fans should talked getting their bottle top leather jackets ready – because Matt’s up for a reunion of the band. “We’ve had offers on the table for quite some time,” he revealed. “And I think Luke and myself would be up for it. I don’t think Craig would. I don’t see Bros as a three-piece band -  Craig left before we ended and before we played Wembley right before we stopped.
“I’m just pleased that we went out on a high selling out Wembley Stadium. They were crazy days and we were both so young.”
And ladies, the star, who split with long term partner Daisy Fuentes at the start of the year, is on a hung for a woman – and he’d even love to become a father. “I’ve only been a single man for eight months,” he said. “It’s not that long and it’s been a real challenge after so long in a relationship to find another girl.
“I’d hope I’d be able to settle down and find love. I’d love to be a father too.”
Read my full chat with Matt later today!

And catch Matt at the Royal Albert Hall on Tuesday (October 19) – tickets available at www.livenation.co.uk.

Photography: With thanks to Steve Bainbridge

I can’t actually express how much I enjoyed the opening of Flashdance the musical at the Shaftesbury Theatre in the West End this week.
My pal Matt Willis – of Busted fame – is ace as the strapping leading man in his first musical theatre role and he’s opposite a truly spectacular actress named Victoria Hamilton-Barritt.
Victoria’s performance will leave you gagging for more – she even does the infamous wet dancing scene from the movie! She told me after the show: “This feels like the start of something special. We’ve all worked incredibly hard on the show and it’s time for people to see our work. You just know when things feel right and everything’s falling into place.” Indeed!
The stars were out in full force for the opening. I sat alongside Lord Webber, Queen’s Brian May and Anita Dobson, Duncan James, Louie Spence and Kelly Brook. Everybody looked happy.
And one person who deserves a big old pat on the back is Arlene Phillips – she’s worked her backside off on this show choreographing all the big numbers. It’s the best thing on the West End for any dance fan right now. Go see it!

Photography: The Picture Library

Fabulous new art website Art Wednesday hosted a star-studded event at Maddox this week on the eve of the Frieze Art Fair.
London’s art and fashion world intertwined at the bash and guests included Made In Dagenham’s Jaime Winstone, Drag DJ supremo Jodie Harsh, Idris Elba of The Wire and my favourite All Saint Mel Blatt.
Snow Queen vodka provided the drinkies too. Yum. And talking of yummy, Max Bergius – editor & founder of Art Wednesday told me: “Tonight has been a great opportunity to establish Art Wednesday as a force to be reckoned with in the art world, providing the perfect antidote to the fuddy-duddy world of Frieze week.
“It’s been thrilling to see so many friends, followers, readers and fans of the website all wanting to come and have a great time, if it wasn’t for them we wouldn’t be here. Tonight symbolised everything that Art Wednesday is – creative, influential, smart, no-nonsense and fun.”
Other guests included Amber Le Bon, Jesse Wood and creative super-star Kate Moross.
Check out www.artwednesday.com now.

Mel Blatt and pal were clearly enjoying the partay!

Idris and the site’s founder Max hung tight.

Photography by Charlie Pycraft

So tonight I drove into London to the Saatchi Gallery for the gala opening of the London Film Festival. The opening film is Never Let Me Go and stars Keira Knightley, Carey Mulligan and the new Spiderman Andy Garfield.
So I arrive all excited and up for a fun night out. I’m due to do snaps with the stars of the movie. What then happens is beyond annoying and deeply frustrating….
I’m told by Keira’s people that she “doesn’t do those pictures with journalists anymore”. Seconds later Carey Mulligan’s flunkies say the same. The Andy Garfield’s people say: “It won’t happen – he’s tired and pooped after a full day of promo.” It was one camera flash. A smile. And he could have left.
I was in the VIP room twenty feet away from Keira as she slid her shoes off and sat there looking over as she slurped her champagne. Carey swigged a tonic and they happily chatted – while Andy sat over in a different corner.
I’ve met Keira and Carey numerous times before and they were lovely girls. I actually grew up in the town next to Keira too – she was in Teddington and I was in Hampton. We discussed the local cheese market the last time we met at a bash.  She was thoroughly charming…..
Now it would seem the machine around Keira has gotten to big for it’s boots. Or has it? Is it the people around her? If so, why is she putting up with that? I’m a journo and I’ve met a truckload of names over my ten years of being in the showbiz scene. Last year at the London Film Festival George Clooney happily nattered and posed for a snap and was a true gent.
People like Keira need to remember the business that they’ve gotten themselves into. As an actress you can’t take just one little slice of the pie when it comes to being a ‘celebrity’. You have to work with journalists – of all types. I know the people behind her like Keira to stay high end, not talk private lots and to stay away from controversy. What makes me laugh about tonight is the fact that in the past I’ve stood up for that girl!
She’s moaned to me about how people have shredded her for her skinny limbs and how awful it made her feel (the truth is her top half is skinny as hell – but she’s always had legs and a bum). I’ve fought her corner on TV and in mags too and said how she’s fine in shape and size. Admittedly I love me a skinny girl…..but I’ve always thought Keira was fine. This was when the entire world was scarily looking at her bones!
The whole point of tonight is the fact that it wasn’t about a picture with people. I do enough of that (as you all know). It’s just that look of disgust the people around a celebrity give a journalist. It’s like we have a highly contagious disease.
We’re not all the same. We are not all tarnished with the same brush. The message to the likes of Keira, Carey and Andy is promote your film.
At least meet a journalist first and if you hate them then fine – or if they’ve screwed you over then fine too.
But don’t start pulling the “I’m too big to pose with a journalist” line. We were part of the fact you got to where you are today. Remember that…..
Until we meet again Keira, here’s the last time we met.

P.S. The London Film Festival looks amazing this year. I’m venting after a disappointing night. The festival will be a roaring success…..as always!

Madame Tussauds London revealed a new wax figure for Get Me To The Greek star Russell Brand yesterday.
Russell’s waxwork took four months to create and cost a whopping £150,000. If you ask me it’s one of the better ones!
What do you think?

Daniel Radcliffe looks smoking hot (and if not a little grubby!) in a brand new cover shoot for style bible Dazed and Confused. How nice is it to see him pushing some boundaries these days and leaving Harry Potter behind slightly!

And the interview is jolly good too – he reveals he’s single for the first time in “years”.

“One topic that Dan famously swerves in interviews is girlfriends. He was rumoured to be dating Equus co-star Laura O’Toole. So, while he’s in talkative mode, let’s get the definitive answer. Are you in a relationship?
“I’m not, actually, any more. But I was for years, when I was saying that I wasn’t.”
So should we believe you now, or not?
“Okay, this is the truth,” he takes a deep breath. “I am single for pretty much the first time in my life. I’ve been in relationships from the age of 14. I went out with one girl for six months, then another girl for two and half years. Then I was with a girl for three years, and now I’m single.”

So there we have it Potter fans, start your engines!

Read the full Rosamund Witcher chat with Dan in the November issue of Dazed and Confused.

Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows: Part I is released on Friday 19 November, with Part II coming out in July 2011.

Chartopper James Blunt insists he can bring the war in Afghanistan to an end – by singing the Taliban into submission.
The former Army Captain who served in Kosovo quips: “I’m tired of the Afghanistan war and I’m going to go out and fix it. I’m going out there round at Christmas time and sing the Taliban into surrender. If I can’t do it then who can? And if that doesn’t work then I’m going to take Katherine Jenkins with me and set her onto them. We’ll flush them out somehow.”
On a more serious note James, 36, says he’s genuinely worried about the coalition government’s rumoured plans to cut army funding. He feels pen pushers at the Ministry of Defence should receive budget cuts and those funds should be delivered direct to troops on the front line in Afghanistan.
“I would hope they’re going to cut funding in the bureaucracy that’s within the army in the Ministry of Defence,” he says. “I think what they’re going to do – if common sense does prevail – is that on the front line where the equipment is needed is where they’re going to go. So taking money away from the overpaid desk jobs and putting it where it’s needed.
“It’s streamlining but it’s also refocusing the cash away from the Ministry of Defence. And that’s what’s needed. We’ve all read about the MoD wasting money.”
The star, who’s releasing his third album Some Kind of Trouble, also admits he tried to make a trip out to visit the troops six months ago. But his plans were scuppered when two C-17 planes broke down before even taking off from a secret base to fly into Afghanistan. He reveals: “I was with 120 soldiers and we got held just outside Afghanistan in a camp out there. We waited to try and get in under the cover of darkness. We were on the runway in a plane, helmets on, armour on and were ready to go in hard and fast at night to avoid any problems and get into Camp Bastion. And then the plane broke down. So we were off the plane. We waited 24 hours, sleeping on the floor, and then a new fixed plane turned up. Helmets on, body amour on, going along the runway. I was actually in the cockpit and then the plane broke again. We’re certainly not going to win a war like that. I wanted to get in there and scare the Taliban.”
The singer’s new album marks an upbeat change in the star’s career. Gone are the sorrowful tunes like You’re Beautiful and Goodbye My Lover on his 11 million debut selling album Back To Bedlam and in are upbeat rock tracks.
And he credits his “crazy aunt” Elton John as being a significant factor in his rise to success. “Elton’s been a Godsend from the word go,” he reflects. “He’s like my crazy aunt. Recently I ended up in Denver working on the album completely on my own on my birthday. The record company sent me a bottle of champagne to my room and a bucket of chicken wings and I’m sitting there thinking: “Fuck what a miserable birthday.”
“Then the phone rang and it was Elton. He said: “James, Happy Birthday. What are you doing?” I told him I was drinking champagne and gnawing on chicken wings and he said: “I’m down the road doing a gig. Come down.” He was doing a concert with Billy Joel. So I spent my birthday in Elton’s dressing room with him sitting there in his underpants having his hair cut and getting ready. He’s the sweetest man.”
Nowadays the star divides his time between London and his home in Ibiza. But he denies leading an extravagant lifestyle despite his multi-millionaire wealth. Blunty, as he’s known to his friends, admits: “My Ibiza home is all I’ve gone for. Everybody asks about how “all the money” has changed my life but I’m not a materialistic person. It’s the only thing I’ve really gone for and splashed my cash on. It’s the best thing in the world.”
The star, who has been dating stunning Spanish girlfriend Sabina for the past two years, also says he’s come to terms with people’s perception of him being a posh boy crooner. He explains: “I think You’re Beautiful did annoy people with the huge amount of airplay. But I’m grateful for that.
“In Britain where we have this tall poppy syndrome. The moment you get up there everyone goes for the jugular. Britain is one of those places that is slightly negative towards me. I’ve just done a radio tour and everybody keeps saying: “You’re so posh – how have you done it. Why do you deserve to have an emotion because you’re posh.” It’s mad. I’m starting a campaign for the MOPO Awards – the music of Posh origin. It’ll be me trying to beat Coldplay and Keane. We’re in the same category. Some people will read that I’m really fucking square and some will say I’m some complete junkie in Ibiza that’s out all the time in clubs. There has to be somewhere in the middle – and there I would sit.”

James releases the single Stay The Night on Oct 25 and the album Some Kind of Trouble Nov 8.

And here’s more of music based Q+A with James too…..

Is it good to be back with new single Stay The Night?
Yes, it is! The single’s gone down really well. I was a bit nervous. I permanently lie to people and say I don’t feel any fear or nerves. I do get very nervous about going on stage when it’s an audience that could be judgemental. I was more relaxed but I get very f**king stressed. You can’t control nerves. And I like to control everything. Also right now it’s remembering the words – I had a cheat sheet for the gig I did to launch the album in London. I only slipped up on one verse.

And how’s the single doing so far?
The single’s number one on the airplay charts in Holland, number three in Italy in the airplay and midweeks number 13 in Germany and France. So it’s looking positive. Europe and Australia has really started taking off. I hope this song Stay The Night won’t be a song too late for the summer. It’s a lot more upbeat for me.

Have you felt a lot of pressure this time around on the third album?
I think the label felt more pressure. They know it is an album by one of their bigger acts. Around the world it’s one of their bigger. I mean, I don’t know for sure and I might be bragging. But financially they want to flog this album.
I guess career wise I have to look at Back to Bedlam which was 11 million sales and All Our Souls was five million so it looks like it’s half as much but you have to think that in that period album sales decreased by about 50 per cent. It’s still a huge album but it doesn’t look great. I think they know they need this one to work. They feel the pressure. I’m kind of think: “F**k it.” I’m having fun. I’ve got an amazing house in Ibiza and I’m enjoying it. I’m in a position where I can enjoy it and I set out to make an album that I was going to enjoy performing. It was never going to be a repeat of You’re Beautiful – that just doesn’t happen. Or another Goodbye My Lover – I’ve said all those words, do a degree.

And this time around the album is a lot happier and upbeat!
I’m having a lot more fun. I’ve really picked up an electric guitar and pretended to be a rock star. I know I’m not. But I’m thrashing about and enjoying it. In the old days I was a boy sat alone with his guitar writing ‘poor me’ songs. And this time I’m fronting a band and it’s different. I get out there and have to front things. We did 260 concerts in a 12 month period last time. For that reason alone it needed to be more up tempo. There are still properly sorrowful ones in there but it’s generally more upbeat. But the bulk of it is more energetic.

And this time around you’re waiting until you’ve conquered Europe and Asia before you take on the States again.
Yes, the really good thing this time around is we’ve decided to release their later in the States. It’s what we did the first time round and it worked well. On the last album I spent six months flogging my arse off and missing Europe and the UK and it struggled out there and it was a long time away from home. I got a fair bit of play on the east and west coast but the centre is really tricky. You can’t take it for granted. I missed out on doing anything over here at all. It’s out February 1 over there. So I can concentrate on Europe, Australia, Japan and home turf. Then I can go over to the States in the new year.
My biggest market is Britain, France and Germany and I need time for them. If Germany’s good for Hasselhoff and Bryan Adams then it’s good for me.

And how was the album put together and written this time around?
Most of my first album I wrote on my own and then took things to somebody to help tie up the lose ends. Second album it was on my own and with co-writes. This one is all with Steve Robson on the whole thing – and he also produced the album. Carl, my drummer, introduced me to Steve and nobody else said I should work with him. He wasn’t necessarily big enough and I walked in and we wrote Dangerous. And it was exactly what I wanted. That innocent, optimistic rock that as a teenager we would have wanted to have listened too. In the eighties when there wasn’t the cynicism – and the nineties and noughties it was full of it. There were a couple of exceptions – working with Ed White and going over to LA to work with Ryan Tedder to write Stray The Night. He’s a little whore now, working with everyone. But he’s amazing.

Were you conscious of the negative publicity you’d received for being posh and slightly ‘square’ in some people’s eyes?
I was conscious of all the negative publicity that I gained following You’re Beautiful. But one thing I’m not is square. I read everything in the press. But I don’t mind it – I’ve learnt to deal with it. I can read anything as positive as you like and it means nothing. And somebody can write the most venomous things and once again it means nothing. There are just one or two exceptions that annoy me. But on the whole I’ve read things that are horrendous to anybody else and the only person who gets annoyed and wants to murder people is my sister. She wants to commit murder. But for me I’m fine about it.

Do you ever get bored of performing your hits like You’re Beautiful?
I don’t think I do get bored of singing that song at all. I think when I was trying to plug my second album there was a radio station in America and a few hundred people had gathered and they wanted me to play it and I refused. They kept asking me. But I walked out and now I realise what a dickhead I was – that’s what they know and what they want to hear. It made my name. Those people wanted to hear and I refused. I will always play it now. That was three years ago and I should have f**king played it. It’s been overplayed in certain places but I never get bored of playing it live and I think people love hearing it live. It’s a pretty song and I enjoy it. Marti Pellow said he didn’t ever want to play Love Is All Around again and then I heard him rehearsing that song in a rehearsal studio recently. When the cash dries up I’ll pull that song out the bag again.

Shhh
WHICH gay pop star needs to stop offering sexual favours to his straight friends?  Especially as this particular star is already taken for! Doh!

*Kimberly Wyatt of the Pussycat Dolls is back in business judging for the Sky1′s Got To Dance. The auditions for the second series have been taking place in London all week.
Kim tells me she’s thrilled to be back alongside judges Adam Garcia and Ashley Banjo. “This show’s fantastic for me and it’s great that we all have different skills,” she says. “Last year we found some amazing talent and the show’s attracting more people this year. We saw over 500 acts in Glasgow alone. This year the prizes are bigger and so far the talent has been far better than last year too.”
She also spoke about moving on from Pussycat Dolls and going solo – and she sounded relieved to have moved on from the band that made her name, including lead singer Nicole Scherzinger. She said: “I’ve never felt so free and creatively free like I am today. The split didn’t really just come down to Nicole. There were a lot of elements. We were a brand and hired as employees – there was no freedom. If there had been a lot of changes then things would be different now.”

*Robbie Williams continues to broaden his mind, body and soul these days. And now he’s transforming himself into the next Picasso from the sounds of it! The star’s revealed in a new interview that he’s turned his garage in an artists studio in LA. The Robster, who is battling for Number One this week with his Gary Barlow duet Shame, revealed: “I’ve turned my garage into a studio. I’ve done six paintings in the last two weeks.
“I’m reallly pleased with them. A gallery has offered to buy some as well.
“It gives me the same buzz as music especially when you think you’ve got one right that you’ve spent all day on.
“I’m strictly into abstract at the minute because I’m not talented.
“But you know how you walk past a painting and go ‘I could fucking do that?’ Well, I’m actually fucking doing it.”
Well good for you, Rob!

*Pineapple Dance Studio’s Andrew Stone continues his descend into being one of the most deluded celebrities on the planet. But you have to admire the guys eternal optimism. This time around the camper-than-a-row-of-tents star claims Simon Cowell is his biggest fan. Andrew told me at this week’s Puma party: “Simon Cowell told me he is a massive fan of the show and I’m his favourite character. He said he was in LA watching the first episode in bed with his girlfriend and loved it so much that he had the rest of the episodes flown over.
“When he found out I had auditioned for X Factor years ago he gave his producer a dark look. I think he would like to sign me but can’t because Syco are in competition with Sky. But we’ve done so well doing it independently and have sold 12,000 downloads of our single.
“Louis Walsh said I had a voice that is perfect for recording during the audition. Maybe he would want to sign me now but really I don’t need him.”
But he saved one last corker of a quote before he left the bash. Talking about whether he would be able to earn a Knighthood Andrew quipped: “Well, if Bruce Forsyth can’t get a knighthood then I won’t.”
He was being deadly serious. Words escape me.

*Russell Brand couldn’t be happier that his future wife Katy Perry is best friends with chartopper Rihanna. And Russell, who released his brilliant second memoirs Booky Wook 2 this week, says it could be having a positive influence on persuading Riri to wed her man Matt Kemp in the future. Russ says: “It’s kind of cool that Katy and Rihanna are friends I guess coz they are both popstars!
“She is chief hen, even though they call it bachelorette, I prefer hen, it’s a better image!! I don’t know if we have made Rihanna want to get married – but I have met her boyfriend and he is lovely. It’s not like I said: “Go on Rihanna, do the right thing, get married!”  Katy might have though, I don’t know, that’s girls talk. You don’t take much notice of what your wife’s best friends are doing, they’re like on the edge of your peripheries!”

*He already had Poppy Honey, Daisy Boo and Petal Blossom Rainbow. And now telly chef Jamie Oliver is trying to explain himself and his bonkers children’s names. Don’t forget he recently named his first born son Buddy Bear!
Jamie revealed: “I know people think that me and Jules call our kids stupid names but they’re just boring. I love Buddy Bear and the middle names are just a bit of fun, he’s just Buddy to me, and I think the girls are gonna love little Buddy when he grows up!!  Our house is pretty chaotic now with four kids, but Jules has it all under control and Poppy and Daisy are like her little helpers and they’re mini Mums to Blossom and Buddy.”

*Steps fans brace yourselves. Lee Latchford Evans has spoken out on the rumours about them reforming and he says it’s NOT happening….yet! Lee told me at this week’s London Lifestyle Awards: “The girls are married and having babies and you can’t suddenly get back together as it has to be right for everybody. We get offers all the time and it is always out there. But it just has to be right. I don’t want to do a Spice Girls reunion where it looks like you’re cashing in as I believe a lot of people do it for that. I believe we owe the fans a lot as the split was very quick and I think they deserve something back for that.” Steps fans – over to you.

*Donna Air sounds as if she’s sizing up options on where to go with her career. The mum-of-one has been pretty quiet of late bringing up daughter Freya. But it sounds as if she’s ready for a fresh new challenge. “I’m looking at some fashion TV projects but I’d really love to get back into acting,” she told me at this weeks Inspirational Women Awards. “There are always scripts floating about and always things to do. It would be nice to work on a really hard-hitting drama and be really brave and do something really dramatic.”
She also says she’s far from ready to embrace anti-ageing procedures like botox. She said: “I really don’t think young girls need any of that stuff. If I had to choose between botox or shoes then the shoes are going to get it every time. A dress lasts a lot longer. A dress is for life. Botox, what, lasts for 8 weeks?”

*Amber Le Bon took time out at make-up legend Bobbi Brown’s book launch party to dismiss rumours she has been dating Danny Cipriani and Sam Branson. The Duran Duran offspring told me: “I didn’t even know who Danny Cipriani was until I told the next day when I read the papers. We were going to the same club so decided to share a taxi. Nothing went on.
“And I’m not dating Sam Branson either, I’m definitely single at the minute. Sam is lovely but we’re just friends and nothing is going on between us.”
She also gave me her top style and beauty tips for when you’;re having a bad skin or hair day, ladies. “For bad hair days I make sure I have a great collection of hats and scarves to hide it,” she laughed. “Then when I have a bad hair day I make sure my hair is extra nice so hopefully it will detract anyone’s attention! We all get self conscious and I try and avoid looking in the mirror first thing in the morning. I think it’s so important that you take your make-up off properly before you go to bed and use good skin cream.” Good girl Amber!

*Shakira must have gotten a shock when she saw the new sketch by comedienne Katy Brand for her new TV show. The roly poly comic recreates Shakira’s She Wolf video in it’s entirety (complete with skin tight outfit and cage) in an new episode of her show. And Shakira, who also appears in the special, couldn’t help but giggle at the final results. My source reveals: “Shakira was in hysterics about the whole sketch. She couldn’t believe the trouble Katy went to to recreate the video.”

*Cherri V (above) is a female solo artist that I’m genuinely excited about. Her new track The Show is flicking my switch big time and currently getting lots of radio airplay. Formerly of girlband Trinity Stone alongside Sugababe Jade Ewen, Cherri is also the niece of soul diva Mica Paris. Check her out!

*With all my trips to LA I’ve grown accustomed to frozen yoghurt to spot a celeb or two. And it seems like London’s trendy Hampstead is following suit with the opening of the Yogurtry on the High Street. Already Melanie Sykes, Kate Hudson, Helena Bonham Carter, Lee Mead and Mel C have popped by!

*I had a right old treat this week when celeb chef Richard Corrigan invited me on the London Eye for a four course meal including jellied lobster and eel and grouse pie! It was to promote the London Restaurant Festival.
Gordon Ramsay hosted a London Eye evening on Friday night and this week Janet Street-Porter hosts the ’2010 London Restaurant Big Debate’ on a foodie subject at King’s Place.